Holding-pad for rupture-trusses.



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HOLDING PAD FOR RUPTURE TRUSSES.

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APPLICATION FILED JAN. 13, 1912.

Patented Sept. 16,1 913.

54%, M t %u tinrrnn sra'rns rarnnr orrion cHAnLEs CLUTI-IE, or GLEN RIDGE, NEW JEEsEY, assrcnon r0 cHAnLEs GLUTHE, an, FREDERICK W. CLUTHE, HEB-MAN CLUTHE, AND ALFRED eLUTHE.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 16, 1913.

Original application filed November18, 1910, Serial No. 593,025. Divided and. this application filed. v

January 13, 1912.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES CLUTHE, a citizen of the United States, and residing in Glen Ridge, Essex county, State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Holding-Pads for ltuptitre-Trusses, of which the following is a full and clear specification, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, the novel features of my invention being more fully pointed out in the annexed claims.

My invention relates in general to holding pads for rupture trusses, abdominal supporters, or the like, which are attached to the body of the wearer by means of a belt, the purpose of such holding pads being to prevent the belt from slipping out of positionin which it is adjusted. In particular my novel holding pad is adapted for rupture trusses. These holding pads, of. which generally two are used, are fixed to the frame of the truss and lie against the back of the wearer in the manner as has been for instance illustrated in my application, Serial No. 593,025, filed November 18th, 1910, from which the present application has been divided, but also in case of one padrit may for instancebe attached in the manner as shown in my United, States Patent No.

563,449. However, the holding pad may be applied to any truss frame well known in the art.

In the accompanying drawings I have illustrated my invention.

In these drawings, Figure 1 is a longitudinal vertical section through one form of my improved back pad. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical section through a modified form of the pad. Fig. 3 is a back view of the modification shown in Fig. 2. i Fig. 4: is a vertical sectional view of a portion of the pad on the line S-S in Fig. 3.

Pads in the form of round disks which lie flat against the body of the wearer to prevent the strapfrom inconveniently cutting into the flesh are known in the art but I have found in practice that the property of such pads to remain in position to prevent the strap from slipping down may be largely increased by providing the substantially plane face of these pads which is in contact with the skin with a plurality of slight annular concentrical depressions which are marked 11 in Figs. 1 and 2, aside from a Serial No. 671,087.

comparatively large sized but equally very slight concentrical depression 12. Each of these depressions recedes from this plane face so that when the pad touches the skin communication between the depressions is prevented. By providing a plurality of slight depressions, the property of such pads to hold fast to the skin by suction of each individual depression is largely increased because of the lack of communication between the depressionss Thus, owing to the slight suction of each individual depression, the pad has no detrimental efiect upon the skin in. spite of its increased adhesive property.

The pad shown in Fig. 1, has on its back a central lug 9 provided with a transverse boring 13 which is adapted to receive the portion of the frame which supports this pad. A portion of this frame is shown for instance in Fig. 3 at 18. For persons of normal proportions, such back pads may be preferably made circular as shown at G in Fig. l of my aforesaid patent and the supportfor-such pads may pivotally hold the latter preferably in the center as shown in said patent and also inFig. 1 of the present application, so that the pad can tilt to either side on a line coinciding with its diametrical line. In case of abnormally proportioned and in particular, stout persons, however, I

. find it necessary -to employ a back pad which, if desired, may tilt more readily to one side than to the other to avoid undue one-sided pressure which may inconvenience the wearer. For this purpose, instead of providing a central boss 9 with a central transverse hole 13 therein as shown in Fig. 1, to receive the supporting wire, I provide a means of support as shown in Figs. 2 to 4. From Figs 2 and 3 it will be noted that a ridge 15 is provided on the back of the pad which extends a suitable distance diametrically across the pad as shown, in which a suitable number of holes 16 (for instance four as shown) are provided which extend at right angles to the ridge and which are each adapted to receive the supporting wire 18 of the truss frame. The holes are located so that one half of them are on one side of the center and one half on the other side, so that when the pad is thus unsymmetrically supported by the wire 18 in any of the eccentrically located holes 16 the pad will more readily more or less tilt on the wire toone side than to the other side and thus yield more easily on one side than on the;

thereon a sleeve 20 (Fig.v 4;) is ad-justably secured by screw 21 on wire 18, which sleeve extends mto a recess 19 between rldge 15 and the pad rim 17. When sleeve 20 is set in position the pad may tilt on the wire but is prevented from shifting by the sleeve. The head of screw 21 may simultaneously serve as a knob to which the flexible back strap is attached, as is for instance shown in my aforesaid patent. I also find it preterable in such pads as shown in Figs. 2 to 4:, to shape the main body of the pad not (bin cular as shown in said patent, but unsynr metrically, such that the pad increases in size on one side of-the transverse middle line through the ridge 15'and decreases in size on the other side of said line. Thus a larger bearing surface may be provided on the pad face on one side of the supporting wire than on the Other side which affords great convenience for wearers of abnormally large proportions.

hat I claim is:

1. In a truss or the like, a supporting pad for holding the truss in place on the wearer,

said pad pivotally supported on the truss and having a ridge extending substantially of said ridge.

across its back and having a plurality of holes extending transversely to the ridge and being located di-fi'erent distances away from the center of the ridge on either side of the center, each hole adapted to receive the pivotal nlemberof the truss on which it is supported to permit the shifting of the ad the faceof said ad increasin in size on one side of said diameter and decreasing in size on the other side, the pad having a ridge on its, back extending across the pad substantiallyfrom said increased portion to said decreased portion and having a plurality of holes extending transversely to the ridge and being located different distancesaway from the center of the ridge oneither side of the center, each hole adapted to receive the pivotal member of the truss on which it is supported to permit the shifting of the pivotal support laterally toward either end Vitnesses:

H. ALFRE JANKE, M. G; CRAWFORD.

Copies of this patent may be, obtained. for five cen'cs each,- by addressing, the Gommissienerof Patents,

Washington, D. G. V

CHARLES \OLUTHE. 

